Texas Society for Music Theory 36th Annual Conference March 2 - 3, 2014 University of Texas, San Antonio San Antonio, Texas

Conference Program

March 7 - Morning Sessions

Buena Vista Street Theater, University of Texas at San Antonio

COFFEE and REGISTRATION: (8:00 - 9:00)

WELCOME: (9:00)

• Jenny Beavers, Chair, Local Arrangements Committee
• David Frego, Chair, UTSA Department of Music

SESSION I: (9:15 - 10:45) - 19th Century Aesthetics, Agency, and Embodiment

• "The Aesthetic of Excess: Plasticity and Expression in the Adagio of Beethoven's String Quartet, op. 127"
  Judith Ofcarcik, Fort Hays University
• "Intentionality and Agency: A Case Study of Schubert's Piano Sonata in A, D. 959"
  John Peterson, Florida State University
• "Embodiment and Indexicality in Chopin's B-minor Prelude"
  Ian Gerg, University of Texas at Austin

BREAK: (10:45 - 11:00)

SESSION II: (11:00 - 12:00) Metric Analysis

• "Large-Scale Metric Conflict in the Early Vocal Music of Benjamin Britten"
  Stuart Duncan, Yale University
• "The 'Time-Shift' Paradigm in Rap Music"
  Michael Berry, University of Washington

LUNCH: (12:00 - 1:30)

March 7 - Afternoon Sessions

SESSION III (Pedagogy): (1:30 - 2:30) - Building Bridges: Music Theory from High School to College

Panelists:
• Sean Atkinson, University of Texas at Arlington
• Kevin Clifton, Sam Houston State University
• Terry Eder, Plano Senior High School
• David Forrest, Texas Tech University
• Nancy Scoggin, Retired, Joshua High School

BREAK: (2:30 - 2:40)

SESSION IV: (2:40 - 4:10) - 18th- and 19th-Century Form

• "Formal Reinterpretation in Schubert's Works for Piano Solo"
  Gabriel Venegas, University of Arizona
• "Joseph Haydn's Use of Musical Humor in his Deformation of Sonata Form"
  Jennifer Salamone, University of Kentucky
• "Nested Forms and Hierarchical Function in Sonata Forms from the Late Nineteenth Century"
  Carissa Reddick, University of Northern Colorado

Keynote Address: (4:10 - 5:10)

"Poet's, Composer's and Performer's Love: Another Take on Cone's Personae"
Peter Kaminsky, University of Connecticut

Reception to follow in the auditorium lobby, sponsored by UTSA SAI

March 8

Buena Vista Street Theater, University of Texas at San Antonio

Coffee (8:00 - 9:00)

SESSION V: (9:00 - 10:30) - Harmony and Counterpoint

• "Ligeti and the Evolution of Klangfarbenmelodie"
  Jennifer Iverson, University of Iowa
• "Steve Reich's Phase Music Reconsidered"
  Sean Atkinson, University of Texas at Arlington
• "The Harmonic Chicken or the Contrapuntal Egg: Two Early Seventeenth-Century Pedagogies for Triadic Composition"
  Benjamin Dobbs, University of North Texas

BREAK: (10:30 - 10:40)

SESSION VI: (10:40 - 11:40) - Brahms

• "Sounding Within: Structural Inner Voices in Brahms's Piano Works"
  Diego Cubero, Indiana University
• "Brahms's Emergent Identity: A Narrative Interpretation of Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35, Book I"
  Gillian Robertson, Florida State University

BREAK: (11:40 - 12:00)

TSMT Business Meeting: (12:00 - 12:30)

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